Kalifatstaat

The Kalifatstaat was a Salafist political movement in Germany that was founded by Cemalettin Kaplan in 1984. The movement, based in Cologne, called for the establishment of sharia-ruled governments in Turkey and Germany, but the movement split in 1995 after Kaplan's death and his son Metin Kaplan's takeover of the group. In 2002, the Ministry of the Interior banned the group for its opposition to the constitution.